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Friday, April 16, 2010

skywatch friday at victory park

today the pasadena park series coincides with skywatch friday. so you get a little taste of the pasadena sky, as well as a new mosaic park sign! victory park is right next to pasadena high school, and also where the saturday farmers market is located. it is also located right across the street from our fantastic church.

from the city website:

"Victory Park is located at 2575 Paloma Street. Hours of operation are from 6:00 am to 10:00 pm. The size of the park is 24.6 acres. Park area includes; a large children’s play area; three softball diamonds with bleachers and lights; one baseball diamond with lights; one multi-purpose lit field suitable for soccer or flag football; sand volleyball court; large parking lot; picnic areas; restrooms; and drinking fountains."

11 comments:

Such a big and beautiful park. And of course it's adjacent to the farmer's market on Saturdays. Also to that big military building. I'd love to get in there and take pictures but I've never asked, have you? Maybe if there were a few of us they'd give a guided tour.

At the corner of Sierra Madre Blvd. and Paloma St. (http://bit.ly/9TZ55I), there's a relatively plain building surrounded by a high, iron fence. The fence doesn't hide the building as much as it makes a statement: "this is protected space." It's either marines or army. They do recruitment and possibly training at the facility. There are military vehicles (jeeps and trucks) parked in the lot behind the building, adjacent to the high school parking lot.

This is a great park. I played soccer there when I was a little kid and now I hit up the farmers market at least a couple times per month. (By the way, the building Petrea is referring to is the Marine Corps Reserve Training Center.)

Stay tuned on the bloggers tour of Pasadena City Hall. I'll have an announcement any day now about the date. I actually have one confirmed on the reservations calendar, but I'm waiting to hear in the next couple of days whether I'll be in town or not, in which case I'll have to reschedule it. I'm reasonably confident it'll be fine.

I played many a softball game at Victory Park. We got the Marines to come over and watch us now and again---they had noticed us practicing while they did their reserve stuff & supported us...nothing like a bunch of Marines rooting on a college team to make the visiting team nervous!

Interestingly, my grandmother used to live not far from there as a child and when I was little she would take me to play at Victory Park. All comes full circle!

& Petrea--don't know if they'd do it now post 9/11), but the Marines had us over for soft drinks and pool & darts once---if you ask, they might let you in to take pics!